Ok I know when you first hit a new guild rank all you want to do is try out the new quests, we all did it but the first thing you should do really is to read up on the quests your about to take on.

This post is to give you some advice on Desperate Defense 2 which happens to be a GR 11 quest. You should be familiar with the quest by now because you should have run the first one at least a few times

For those that don’t know it the quest involves keeping a certain Captain Roberts alive (NPC) throughout the quest, as soon as this character dies the quest is over and it’s a big ‘fail’. No items, no rewards, no exp, no guilder.

I know some of you are wondering why i’m posting this now and it’s because i’ve just tried to run this quest twice now and both times failed, with four players, this shouldn’t happen.

When you start this quest someone should say at the very least if they are babysitting the captain or not, if the other 3 players had at least said they don’t want to babysit I could have done this. I took it for granted that being the highest GR in the quest my responsibility would be to do the most damage and get through the quest quickly with some decent items.

Having said that I also should have kept checking on roberts myself, especially the second time around.

For those new to this quest first of all you should really wait for four players. Yes I have done this with two but if your going into this quest at GR 11 you really want four. No extra rewards for completing it with two so it may as well be four and make everyone’s job that much easier.

Before the quest starts someone should say if they are going to be healer or not, if no one wants to babysit then the job can be shared, it’s pretty easy and it was a shame that we failed this quest, I mean we didn’t just fail we was humiliated because we failed on the very first Giga.

That’s why I wasn’t paying attention, usually even when there is a good healer I still check on roberts but only when the two giga’s come out, my mistake.

Also as i’ve said before even if there is a healer you should each keep an eye on roberts because he can be taken out in one go, and always assume the healer is down if roberts is low. This is one quest I really miss having Fates Favor, I regret not putting that in my skill tree just for that quest.

Another point worth mentioning I think is the very first battle, the one before the giga, there is about 5 or 6 magi, don’t , and I stress please don’t rush down there and kill everyone, this is the easiest part of the quest, use it to build your AC, one of the quests I failed everyone was longsword users, they all just steamed on down and wiped out all the magi, I managed to build up a whopping 2 AC, this first part is easy for a reason, build your AC your going to need it.

This sounds more like a rant than advice and in a way it is, I came here to give this advice because I was pissed at the way we failed and I see more and more of this quest failing miserably simply because some players won’t think before they enter the quest.

This is in no way pointing fingers, just wanted a few to know the best way to beat this quest, I am totally responsible for failing this quest twice because I should have kept a check on roberts and I didn’t, I assumed other knew what they were doing.

Just a few simple steps will guarantee your success in this quest, keep Captain Roberts alive, it’s about the only thing that matters, use the first battle to build AC, then help each other through the rest, that’s it.

Tony:)